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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Risālah al-Khusrawīyah fī al-walāʼ الرسالة الخسروية في الولاء /

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Title

  • al-Risālah al-Khusrawīyah fī al-walāʼ

Other Title

  • الرسالة الخسروية في الولاء /

Summary

  • Treatise on the legal aspects of patronage.

Names

  • Hüsrev, Molla, -1480
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • before 1211 [before 1796 or 1797]

Headings

  • -  Patron and client--Early works to 1800
  • -  Islamic law--Early works to 1800
  • -  Hanafites--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Fol. 1a has former owner's statement, Aḥmad al-ʻArīshī al-Ḥanafī, sanat 1211.
  • -  Written by Muṣṭafá Abū al-Saʻādāt al-Isqāṭī al-Ḥanafī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; polished cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GII, p. 227
  • -  Naskh; 23 lines in written area 14.5 x 9.3 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-6a.
  • -  "H-0762 = 4.492."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 4-492.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ذي التصايف المفيدة محمد بن على فرامز الشهير بمنلا خسرو ... اما بعد فان ملوك هده المملكة ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... والله الهادي للصواب. والحمد للع وحده والصلاة والسلام على خير نبي ارسله وعلى جميع الانبيا والمرسلين وال مل اصحابهم اجمعين. كتبه بيده الغانية العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغني مصطفى ابو السعادات الاسقاطي الحنفي عفى عنه.

Medium

  • 6 leaves (23 lines), paper : bound ; 21.7 x 16.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KBP529.52 .H87 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481617

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Hüsrev, Molla, -1480, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Risālah al-Khusrawīyah fī al-walāʼ. [Before Before 1796 or 1797, 1796] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481617/.

APA citation style:

Hüsrev, M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1796) al-Risālah al-Khusrawīyah fī al-walāʼ. [Before Before 1796 or 1797] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481617/.

MLA citation style:

Hüsrev, Molla, -1480, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Risālah al-Khusrawīyah fī al-walāʼ. [Before Before 1796 or 1797, 1796] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481617/>.